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Updated On: 11 September, 2022 08:01 AM IST | Mumbai | Jane Borges
An evidence-based podcast explores how climate crisis has exacerbated the issue of early marriages across the world
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Droughts, coupled with the return of the Taliban, has led to an alarming rise in early and forced marriages in Afghanistan. Pic/Getty Images
Research -based podcasts can sometimes be quite tedious to listen to, particularly because of how dense, pedantic, and rigorous the content is—it almost always demands complete attention from the listener. But, journalist Reetika Revathy Subramanian’s just released podcast Climate Brides, despite taking the academic route, keeps it simple.
The podcast, an evidence-based, multimedia project on early marriages across South Asia’s fragile climate hotspots, is an offshoot of Subramanian’s doctoral research at the University of Cambridge where she is investigating the links between early marriage and extreme drought in western India, particularly, the Marathwada region.
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